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The fitness world talks a lot about ‘functional movement’ at the moment and about full body balance and a ‘holistic’ approach to fitness. However, for some reason these same fitness trends always seem to forget about the ROW for some reason 🤷‍️
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Upper body horizontal pulling is one of the best ways to ‘armour’ the upper/middle back and protect the shoulder from injuries
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Here’s a cool progression to have a crack at, double KB row with isometric. One arm holds the weight up top while the other rows. This can build great scapula awareness and also is fantastic for unilateral strength.
IMO the overall upper body volume in a general program should be pulling biased compared to pressing movements. Something like 2:1 is a pretty good ratio.

The fitness world talks a lot about ‘functional movement’ at the moment and about full body balance and a ‘holistic’ approach to fitness. However, these same fitness trends always seem to forget about the ROW for some reason 🤷‍️
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Upper body horizontal pulling is one of the best ways to ‘armour’ the upper/middle back and protect the shoulder from injuries
.
Here’s a cool progression to have a crack at, double KB row with isometric. One arm holds the weight up top while the other rows. This can build great scapula awareness and also is fantastic for unilateral strength.
IMO the overall upper body volume in a general program should be pulling biased compared to pressing movements. Something like 2:1 is a pretty good ratio.

Bill Stellios makes a 147.5kg snatch after missing it first. As you can see he had to follow himself and makes the lift it less than 1 minute after missing it.
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In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, NASM Personal Trainer and Strongman enthusiast John Taylor and I write love letters to our favorite lifts: the Squat, Bench Press, Deadlift, and Strict Press (overhead press). As a coach, I’m a big fan of variance in my programming of exercises. But these 4 movements are the foundation of my programming and show up every week in one form or another in my programming. Of course ALL of the other movements we do are important and are pivotal in creating truly balanced functional athletes, but these 4 lifts are the base for a host of reasons that we get into. Things also get weird on some of the letters...especially with the musical accompaniment. You can find this episode and all the others on iTunes, Podbean, GooglePlay, Podtail, PlayerFM, and Stitcher!
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Saturday’s are for the boyssss!
Anddddd back squats!
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Listen to our friends @moveu_official ... they know a thing or two ...
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Do you #backsquat ? Does your arm go numb ️or does your shoulder hurt ‍️while you back squat? It is probably your shoulder blade position! Take the next few months, DAILY, to really focus on the positioning of the shoulder blades in this video.
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Pulling the blade down ⬇️and pressing the armpit forward➡️ can be difficult if your pecs and traps are super tight! If that is the case for you, we posted a video last week demonstrating how to smash and self-massage the pec muscle🤽‍️. This will give you some more range ↪️of motion to play with and move your shoulder blade a little bit more. Learning to hold the blade in that position that will ultimately reduce your pec and neck tightness.
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Learning to move the blade like this doesn’t happen over night. It requires CONSTANT effort throughout your day, not just in a back squat. Learn to apply this motion to washing dishes, picking up your kids🤱, driving, working‍, etc.
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